MOODY AIR FORCE BASE — The 23rd Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal flight celebrated the opening of their new facility with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Jan. 27.
The new compound was built to replace their former 1950s building and to increase safety, accommodate more EOD team members and provide for more training opportunities.
“The building that EOD occupies now is the second-oldest on base and was built in 1954,” said James Holmes, 23rd CES EOD training technician. “The new building is a state-of-the-art building that allows us to trust the foundation we stand on. Although our previous building was safe, this one is built from the bottom up meeting modern construction standards, codes and practices.”
The new building will feature approximately 7,700 square feet, with more additions to come.
“Our flight manning has recently increased by about 40 percent and so the increase in space will be really appreciated,” said Capt. Rob Scott, 23rd CES EOD flight commander. “The new building provides not only more space, but many new features that will result in an all-around more efficient work environment.
In addition to a larger space, the convenient location of the new building will benefit both the EOD airmen and those they respond to. It will be located near the Combat Arms Training and Maintenance Range and is right outside the entrance of their own EOD training area.
“The new building is now centrally located between the areas we train in as well as common response areas,” said Master Sgt. Eric Osborne, 23rd CES EOD flight superintendent. “We can respond quickly to the flightline and munitions storage areas, but will still have easy access to the rest of the base.”
With the many modern features available in the new facility, the EOD Airmen are allowed even greater opportunities to train and prepare for contingency operations.
“With our high operations tempo EOD combat mission, the facility's new features will help better prepare our airmen to conduct operations both at home station and deployed,” Osborne said. “There is a separate work area that has larger training areas and classrooms, and a state-of-the-art operations center.
“We also now have a weapons vault and climate-controlled equipment maintenance and storage bays,” he added.
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Gen. William M. Fraser III, Air Combat Command commander, provides opening remarks at the new Explosive Ordnance Disposal facility ribbon cutting ceremony here Jan. 27. Gen. Fraser attended the ribbon cutting during his base visit of Moody.
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